Disable Single Test after Hours

Didn't think of that approach.
It will probably not show up, since the report only lists yellow and red
status incidents.
Sound like a bit of a kludge, but in the absence of any other option, I
might do that that.
Will give it a couple of days first, see if anybody else has something more
elegant.
But thanks. I think that will work.

Regards
Vernon


On 30 May 2014 09:42, Ralph Mitchell <user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Does the test still show up in the report if you send a "disable" for it?
 You should be able to do something like this with cron:

   xymon localhost "disable yadda,bling,com.http 60 Nap Time"

Ralph Mitchell


On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Vernon Everett <user-b3f8dacb72c8@xymon.invalid>
wrote:

Hi all

I have a host, running an HTTP server.
We need to monitor the host, 24x7, but the HTTP test goes down overnight
for regular updates, or refueling or something.  Ours not reason why....
I want to disable just the HTTP test after hours..
And before you say I should put a TIME entry in alerts.cfg, it's not that
simple.

Every morning, a remote co-worker, looks at the EvenLog Report, and
generates an "Incident Report" for the PHBs.
The alerts.cfg entry simply stops the alerts from going out. The test
still goes red, and shows up as an event.

You might think he could exclude the host in the appropriate exclude
field, but there are other aspects of the host that need to be monitored,
and included in the report.
We could exclude HTTP from the report, but we have other hosts running
HTTP services that must remain up, and need to be in the report too.

So how to disable a single HTTP test for a specific time period, on a
single server so it doesn't generate events?
Alternatively, leave a single host:test combo out of the EventLog report.

Regards
Vernon
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